KC state rep. focused on protecting Missourians
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — State Rep. Emily Weber, D-Kansas City, prefiled four bills Thursday aimed at safeguarding the rights and well-being of Missourians across the state.
“I wanted to file these bills first because they share a common theme: the General Assembly needs to do a better job protecting its citizens,” Weber said. “Gun violence, food and housing insecurity, discrimination, predatory corporations that take advantage of their own customers… the majority party has dropped the ball all too often on confronting these crises. My bills will work to mitigate the damage done to Missourians.”
House Bill 214 prohibits employers from engaging in certain forms of employee pay discrimination based on gender.
House Bill 215 extends the duration of unemployment benefits from its current 20-week duration to 26 weeks. This change would bring Missouri in line with 39 other states and the District of Columbia.
House Bill 217 would enact a “right-to-repair” law in Missouri, permitting the owners of most consumer goods and products to repair what they own. Weber’s bill protects consumers by giving them access to the same repair and diagnostic information that manufacturers give to independent and authorized repair providers.
House Bill 218 requires a firearm owner to report lost or stolen firearms, which are often used to commit crimes while making it difficult to connect guns recovered by law enforcement to find an assailant. Data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) found that nearly 14,800 guns recovered by police in connection with a criminal investigation and traced by ATF from 2012 to 2018 had been reported stolen or lost from gun stores.
Weber previously filed all four of these bills in 2021 and 2022.
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